Handel’s Radamisto shows the ability of a marriage to withstand assault by a tyrant, who uses his powers and orders a city to be stormed so that he may possess the married woman he craves.

Following Christopher Alden’s Laurence Olivier Award-winning production of Partenope in 2008, English National Opera strengthens its position as the ‘House of Handel’ with a new production of Radamisto, the work that launched the composer’s 20-year reign as London’s lord of Italian opera.

Premiered to celebrate the reconciliation of George I and his estranged son, the Prince of Wales, Radamisto is a tale of feuding royal families, torn apart by illicit and irrational passions.
Radamisto is conducted by leading Handel expert Laurence Cummings and stars exciting young countertenor Lawrence Zazzo.

This lavish and exotic new staging of Radamisto is directed by the multi-award-winning David Alden, whose Ariodante has long been admired as a jewel in English National Opera’s Handelian crown.

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